The enhancement of software applications is unstoppable. It is inevitable for today’s generation where technology has a big role in all aspects of work. Almost all businesses were shifted into digital transactions especially now that the world is facing a new normal setup of life due to pandemic. Adopting to a new era of technologies is vital and everyone must ride on the flow else they will leave behind.
Nature and Purposes of Online Platforms and Applications
Online platforms and Applications are digital environments in which you can access online or with internet connection. With these applications the organization or even one individual can create a good presentation, webpage, content portal group page, collaboration portal for a specific purpose.
Online Platforms are technologies that are grouped to be used as a base upon which other applications processes or technologies are developed.
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1. PRESENTATION/VISUALIZATION
It is a graphics program that allows you to create slideshows presenting a topic, lecture, demonstration to enlighten, educate, communicate or persuade the audience. It will help you to organize, summarize and format the content of the information you want to convey to your audience.
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2. CLOUD COMPUTING
It is an online application site that offers services as data bank storage, networking, software analytics and intelligence for faster innovation, sharing with flexible resources between different organizations or within an organization. We can use host services which most of it is paid for, but there are some cloud computing offers with free services but with a limited capacity so if you want to use it in full capacity you must need to pay for their services. It is also considered as File Management Applications.
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3. SOCIAL MEDIA
Social media is one of the busiest applications in this generation. These are computer mediated tools that allow people to communicate, collaborate, share and exchange information. According to Wikipedia, Social media are interactive digitally-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation or sharing/exchange of information, ideas, career interests, and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.
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OTHER ONLINE TOOLS:
MAPPING
Online mapping services are used for finding locations, creating routes by encoding the address or specific location. It also provides another function which you can see the image of the location you have been searching for.
Example of Mapping Application:
1. Google Maps – this application was developed by Google. It offers satellite views of locations, aerial photography and a 360-degree interactive panoramic view of the locations. This can help you to route the place you want to route the location. Also it will give you information about the current situation of the traffic on the possible area.
2. Wikimapia – is an open content collaborative mapping site with the use of interactive web maps. The project implements an interactive "clickable" web map that utilizes Google maps with a geographically-referenced wiki system, with the aim to mark and describe all geographical objects in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimapia
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SHARING OF LOCATION
Using Google Maps you can share your current location by clicking the share button on the left panel.
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